There has been a rapid increase in the use of phylogenetic methods to study the evolution of
languages and culture. Languages fit a tree model of evolution well, at least in their basic …

This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its
history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus …

All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This
book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of …

The number of languages spoken on the planet has oscillated up and down throughout the
history of mankind. 1 Different social factors operate in opposite ways, some resulting in the …

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and
cumulative change in human technologyÑprominent research themes in both archaeology …

We present the first proposal of detailed internal subgrou** and higher-order structure of
the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian languages. Previous work has identified more than …

Cladistic theories of human evolution, derived from biological theories of speciation, are
currently being advanced to explain worldwide distributions of language, culture, and …

In this paper we outline two debates about the nature of human cultural history. The first
focuses on the extent to which human history is tree-like (its shape), and the second on the …

Phylogenetic methods have recently been applied to studies of cultural evolution. However,
it has been claimed that the large amount of horizontal transmission that sometimes occurs …

This study investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. In line with
other recent typological research in the context of complex sentences and clause-linkage, it …